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Translingual

Han character

(radical 157 +15, 22 strokes, cangjie input 口一戈土戈 (RMIGI), four-corner 61140)

  1. hesitate, waver, falter

References

  • KangXi: page 1235, character 43
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37972
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1708, character 17
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3748, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+8E95

Chinese

trad.
simp.

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*tos
*do
*do
*do
*do
*djoʔ, *djos
*tjos, *djos
*djos

Pronunciation



Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
chú
Middle
Chinese
‹ drju ›
Old
Chinese
/*[d]ro/
English 踟躕 drje.drjo walk hesitatingly

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1
No. 17642
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*do/

Definitions

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Compounds

  • 搔首踟躕搔首踟蹰
  • 步踟躕步踟蹰
  • 踟躕踟蹰
  • 躊躕踌蹰
  • 躕躇蹰躇

References


Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings